Mick Jagger was widely rumoured to be the Rolling Stone most doubtful about the band's decision to play Glastonbury. But it sounds as if he is going to be getting into the spirit of the festival after all.

Rather than getting helicoptered on and off the site to play the show, the Rolling Stones frontman says he is planning to camp on the Worthy Farm site in yurts with his family next month.

The 69-year-old rocker told Q magazine: "I've got nothing else to do on Glasto weekend, and I want to spend some time with my family and have a good time as well." Jagger revealed that his daughters Jade and Elizabeth are in the process of sourcing yurts for the family escapade, and hinted that they may even visit after-hours raves at Shangri-La: "I don't need [my daughters] to show me the cool places to go. I'm sure I can find some places of my own that are much cooler" – giving rise to the tantalising possibility that Jagger could end up dancing shirtless at 4am at house venue the NYC Downlow.

Asked whether he was worried about being hassled on his family vacation, Jagger said: "Depends where I go. I think everyone will be pretty laid back." The frontman said he was no stranger to camping and had been with his own children despite earning millions – although the weather was a little less unpredictable than the UK. He said he had been "on the beach with my kids in the Caribbean, but it's just the same as Brighton – there's just less chance of bad weather".

He told the magazine, out later this month: "We went camping all the time when I was a kid. Camping in France was our family holiday. And we brought baked beans with us, as we didn't trust that fancy foreign food. We were so totally English."